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NAIROBI - Associated Press Nicholas Bett, a Kenyan runner who won the 2015 world championship title in the 400-meter hurdles, was killed in an early-morning car crash Wednesday in the country’s famed high-altitude training region, police and his coach said. He was 28. Bett, who raced for Turkish sports club Fenerbahçe, had only just returned home this week from the African championships in Nigeria. Nandi county police commander Patrick Wambani said Bett was killed in the crash on the road between Eldoret and Kapsabet, two of Kenya’s best-known distance-running training towns in the Rift Valley region. Bett was driving alone, Wambani said. Bett’s SUV hit bumps in a road and rolled, landing on its roof in a ditch, his coach, Vincent Mumo, told The Associated Press. Mumo said the accident happened at about 6 a.m. "I’m out of words," Mumo said. "We thank god for his life." Mumo said Bett’s twin brother, Aron Koech, who is also an athlete, was "beyond … [Read more...] about Former world hurdles champion, Fenerbahçe athlete Bett killed in car crash

KENYAN distance runner Nicholas Bett has died aged just 28 in a horror car crash. The African athlete won the 2015 World Championship 400m title in Beijing in 2015. He was killed while travelling in Lessos, Nandi, in his home country, a day after returning from the Continental Championships in Nigeria. Bett is a two-time African Championship medallist whose twin brother is also a 400m hurdler. His family and local police confirmed the tragic death this morning. It is understood the car he was driving veered off the road and smashed into a ditch Ru plonkers Ruben Loftus-Cheek loan deal to Crystal Palace 'confirmed' by Premier League POG ULTIMATUM Man Utd told Pogba wants £200k-a-WEEK pay-rise to stay by super-agent Raiola ON THE PROWL Watford make £10m bid for Southampton midfield star James Ward-Prowse horror clash Man City loanee Brattan suffers injury forcing 40-MIN delay after kick to head IAN WRIGHT Kroenke taking over Arsenal is absolutely disastrous - I hate what's … [Read more...] about Nicholas Bett dead aged 28: Beijing World Championship gold medallist dies in horror car crash

Sport by Press Association June 12, 2018, 11:48 pm FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedInEmail Sign up to our Sport newsletter Subscribe todaySubscribe today from 99p Greg Rutherford, the former Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth long jump champion, has announced his intention to retire from athletics at the end of the summer. Rutherford’s finest hour came during ‘Super Saturday’ at London 2012, when he was one of six Britons to capture Olympic gold on a day that has gone down as one of the finest in the nation’s sporting history. He went on to claim bronze at Rio 2016 but injuries restricted him to just three competitive outings last year and he has decided he will bring the curtain down on his career later this year. The 31-year-old said in an Instagram post: “I’m incredibly proud of my career. I’ve achieved so much but retirement comes early to those of us for whom sport is a livelihood. “It only feels like … [Read more...] about Rutherford announces retirement from athletics

Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya will try to remain the top track and field nation at the Commonwealth Games despite bringing a new-look team after many of their top performers opted out. The Kenyans, who are also recovering from a major doping scandal which prompted wide-ranging reforms, have come with a new crop of runners to Australia's Gold Coast. Only three of Kenya's gold medallists survive from 2014, when they topped the athletics medals table, with David Rudisha, Asbel Kiprop and Ezekiel Kemboi among those missing. "This is an entire young team who are hungry to chart their own destiny," head coach Japheth Kemei told AFP in Nairobi ahead of the competition, which gets underway on Sunday. "Kenyan athletics is now in a period of transition, but we are happy that there will be a continued athletics success as we plan for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in two years time." Reigning javelin champion Julius Yego and steeplechaser Jonathan Muia Ndiku, who will run the 10,000m, will use their … [Read more...] about New-look Kenya look to turn page at Commonwealth Games

PUBLISHED: 13:30 05 April 2018 Dave Evans Great Britain's Rabah Yousif celebrates taking bronze in the men's 4x400m relay at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium (pic Martin Rickett/PA) PA Archive/PA Images When you win a medal at the World Championships on your home track, you would think that would signal a successful summer – but not for Newham & Essex Beagles’ Rabah Yousif. Despite claiming a 4x400m relay bronze at the London Stadium in 2017, Yousif was left with a sense of frustration at the campaign in general. “Last season was a huge disappointment,” claimed the 31-year-old 400 metre runner. “I won a bronze medal at the World Championships in the relay, but individually, it was not good enough.” The Beagle, having won relay bronze at the 2015 Worlds in Beijing and 2016 Europeans in Amsterdam, after taking European gold in Zurich in 2014, was controversially overlooked when it came to the individual places on the … [Read more...] about Yousif hoping for individual rewards after World relay bronze